Fling out the Banner! the National Church Ideal and the Foreign Mission of the Episcopal Church

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Fling Out the Banner! The National Church Ideal and the Foreign Mission of the Episcopal Church. Bylan T. Douglas. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1996. Pp. viii, 341. No price given.

In Fling Out the Banner Ian Douglas provides a fascinating take on the history of the Episcopal Church-one that is presented by means of a narrative of its missionary thought and activity. He begins with the nineteenth century and ends with the period 1960-90. The primary subject of the book is the growth and influence of the Episcopal Church's understanding of itself as a national church destined to occupy a central and strategic place in the configuration of American denominationalism. …